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“People wanted to see more pro-code flexibility,” he said in an interview at Sapphire 2026. “We had gone with a low-code approach. You could give it extension points and tools, but you couldn't touch the core of it. Now you can build a custom agent, connect it to your own GitHub.”

Engineer Jan Polensky has submitted a patch series titled “s390: enable Rust support and add required arch glue.” If accepted, it will allow Rust code to be used in the Linux kernel on IBM mainframe hardware, which the kernel still refers to as s390 after the generation of IBM mainframe kit introduced in 1990. He notes: “For now, using a nightly build of the Rust compiler does not sound to us like the sort of thing many conservative mainframe shops are likely to embrace with enthusiasm, but even big new features have to start somewhere.”

I worked at a startup at the time, our team used this ancient bug tracker. May have been Bugzilla. The point being that tool was not particularly configurable. You either got notifications or you did not get notifications. If you configure for notifications, you got notifications. You touch a bug, you get an email. Somebody touches a bug, they get an email. Somebody else touches a bug, you get 10 emails. Get the idea. The team decided, this is not tenable. We need a concise daily report that shows you the life of our bugs for the day.

“Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, we've decided it's time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages,” wrote ReleaseTeam member Paul Gevers. “Since yesterday, we have enabled our migration software to block migration of new packages that can't be reproduced or existing packages (in testing) that regress in reproducibility.”

gtk2-ng is reviving and modernizing Gtk2 version 2, which the GNOME developers declared dead back in 2020. We held off on reporting this for a while to see if the idea would gain some support, and it does seem to winning interest and followers. Reviving a 24-year-old toolkit that reached its official end-of-life six years ago is a retrospective sort of undertaking, and as such, it appeals to some modern-but-nostalgic development projects.

"Terminal emulators are a big part of our daily lives as developers but yet we are not making enough innovations in that space," Parmaksiz told The Register in an email. "With Ratty I hope to inspire others to experiment with terminals and push the limits of what they can do."

The command line is still the best tool for some jobs—many jobs, in fact. A mouse-driven point-and-click interface essentially reduces the user to pointing at something on the screen and grunting, 'DO! DO THAT!' at the computer.

Ubuntu 26.04's default desktop is GNOME 50, which is Wayland-only. Users can still run X11 apps, but logging in using X.org is no longer possible, impacting traditional tools like desktop recording and remote control.

Fedora 44 falls somewhere in between, while at the same time taking Linux to new heights. With Fedora 44, you get GNOME 50, which elevates the DE to be on par with those that have surpassed it over the past few years.

OpenAI Codex surpassed Claude Code in downloads sharply after the April 30 release, indicating a significant shift in developer adoption towards Codex.

The scope of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine tests was particularly striking, accounting for a relatively large portion of the changes, mainly due to renaming components to align with kernel conventions.